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Mar 07, 2016
TRANSPORTATION
Today’s fare hike vote by the Fiscal and Management Control Board (FMCB) illustrates why creation of the Board was so critical to the T’s turnaround and why the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation supports the steps the FMCB has taken to date. Bold...
TRANSPORTATION
Mar 03, 2016
TRANSPORTATION
TRANSPORTATION
Jan 27, 2016
PUBLIC FINANCE > Budget > FY 2017
Today, Governor Baker released his FY 2017 budget recommendations. His House 2 proposal recommends $39.55 billion in line item spending, an increase of $1.22 billion (3.2%) over FY 2016 projected spending. Of this $1.22 billion increase, $739.3...
PUBLIC FINANCE > Budget > FY 2017
Jan 14, 2016
PUBLIC FINANCE > Budget > FY 2017
Today, the Executive Office of Administration & Finance (ANF) and the House and Senate Committees on Ways and Means announced that the FY 2017 state budget will be built on $26.860 billion in tax revenues. This consensus figure, which assumes 4.3...
PUBLIC FINANCE > Budget > FY 2017
Jan 08, 2016
PUBLIC FINANCE > Budget > FY 2016
On January 8th, Governor Baker announced $105 million in budget cuts and new revenues to partially address an midyear budget gap.
PUBLIC FINANCE > Budget > FY 2016
Dec 16, 2015
PUBLIC FINANCE > Budget > FY 2017
Tax revenues will grow by $980 million, or 3.8 percent, to $26.69 billion in fiscal 2017, slower than the 4.6 percent annual average over the past five years and below that of previous economic recoveries, according to a new forecast released today...
PUBLIC FINANCE > Budget > FY 2017
Dec 08, 2015
HEALTH CARE
HEALTH CARE
Dec 01, 2015
PUBLIC FINANCE > Municipal
PUBLIC FINANCE > Municipal
Nov 18, 2015
ECONOMY
ECONOMY
Nov 10, 2015
PUBLIC FINANCE > Budget > FY 2016
Troubling state budgetary practices have left the Commonwealth’s Stabilization Fund balance insufficient to meet the next fiscal downturn and immediate action is needed to increase and safeguard the fund for future use, according to a report released...
PUBLIC FINANCE > Budget > FY 2016